OFSIRJESS NOTICES. i
.Sfclnvrap <£ Sons’
•RAND FQUAKE AND tTPRIOIIT PIANOS
•caeral reduction hi prices in accordance with tbo do
•lfete in the premium on gold. i
lifeinwty A Sons manufnctnro also an entirely new
stylo of instrument termed the
, scnooii PIANO. ,
Precisely the same In rino, scale, interior mechanism
and workmanship as their highest priced 7 ootave
abacs, in a perfectly plain, vet oxcoeillngly noat ox*
fcilor case, which are offered to those wlio desire to
C Mess a first-class' 1 Stoinway Piano," yet arc limited
means, at Tory low prices.
o|Mial also cirtjod to Stain way & Sons’ now
PAfiCNT'UPBionTTIAW,
With Double Iron Frnmo, Patent Resonator, Tnbr.lar
■fetal Frnmo Action, Ac.* which are matchless in .tono
•»dtouch,And unrivalled in durability.
■hr cry Pianoforte 1b warranted for nvo yearß.
•Kanos to rent* and old Pianos takon in exchange.
CHARLES BLABIUS, bolo Agent for tho Bate of
Eteiimay A Sons’,world-renowned Pianofortes.
mbWtfJ Warorooms, 1006 Ohestnntstreet.
Rteck irCo.’B Grand, Square and
•PrigbtPi.no.. Pianos to rent.
fefift§ . . Ho, 923 Chestnut stroot.
EVENING BULLETIN.
Friday, April 1, 1870.
K7= Our advertisers have encroached so
■pon our space to-day, that wo are obliged to
change the positions of several departments of
leadirg matter, as well as a number of adver
tisements.
BEVIW AT THE ACADEMY.
As to the right of the Directors of the
Academy of Music to admit or refuse whom'
they will to their house, there can be very little
question. As to the extraordinary taste and
judgment which prompts them to shut their
doors to a Senator of the United States, on ac
count of his color, there will be still less diver
sity of opinion in this community. The Direc
tors of the Academy of Music are not bigoted
Irish Democrats, to whom the Fifteenth
Amendment is, as jet, a bewildering mystery.
They are gentlemen, like John Gilpin, “of
credit and renown,” enterprising, liberal, culti
vated gentlemen. And yet they have, per
suaded themselves that it is “expe
dient” to exclude Senator Revels from
their stage! They refuse him permis
sion to make an address before the peo
ple of Philadelphia. They are afraid that
colored people will go to hear him. There is
scarcely any kind of public performance that
has not been witnessed on /the stage of the
Academy of Music, religious or profane. The
most indecent'forms of opera bovffe did not
shock the.sensibilties of these politic directors.
All the odds and ends of circus shows and other
■extravaganzas have been freely admitted within
its refined precincts. The Academy has been
devoted to nearly every conceivable object, ex
cept the one for which it was built; but sud
denly the management has been shocked al
most into a paralysis by the suggestion that a
distinguished United States Senator,, whose
maiden speech in the Senate Chamber crowded
its galleries with as -quiet and well-behaved an
Audience as ever assisted the Directors of "Be
Academy in their patronage of the leg-drama,
should speak from ttaeir immaculate stage!
We feel sorry for the gentlemen of the di
rection of the Academy of Music. Their ideas
•of Philadelphia sentiment are so hopelessly be
hind the times, that pity, rather than indigna
tion, is excited by their action. We know of
no elass in this community, of any grade of so
ciety, that will not repudiate the narrow and
short-sighted policy of these geutlemen...There ’
is scarcely a private drawing-room in Philadel
phia where Senator Revels would not be re
ceived with courtesy and respect; certainly no
ether public hall that would be closed against
. him. Philadelphia, fortunately, has put herself
too clearly and too high on the record, to have ,
her good name affected by this foolish blunder
-of the Directors, of the Academy, and we drop
the subject, tendering to those gentlemen our
sincere condolence.
THE TAX FRAVD.
•Councils did their whole duty, yesterday, iu
their unanimous denunciation of the disgrace
ful -fraud perpetrated upon tbe Governor and
the people of Philadelphia, at Harrisburg, last
week. Now what do our Philadelphia mein
'bers mean to do about this matter?
Messrs.' Connell and Henszey bare com-,
xnitted themselves in the Senate, and Messrs.
Ilong and Stokes in the House, in defence of
this extremely ugly business, and we do not
hesitate to say that the Republican party of
Philadelphia is bound to mark this proceeding
■with its severest reprobation.' Senator .Connell
ie an able and experienced legislator, and, in
.many respects, can be ill spared from Harris
hurg. The other gentlemen can easily be
■pared, to, make way for citizens incapable of
lending themselves to such a fraud as this. It
» peculiarly Senator Connell’s duty to take the
'initiative in repealing this bill, and so reinstate
himself in tbe good opinion of his friends and
.eonstituenis. Neither he, nor any man living,
is strong enough before the - people, to carry
the burden of this transaction. It is a bad busi
ness, and must pe undone before tire Logisla
■tnre adjourns, or it will most certainly undo
-every one connected with it. Tbe people of
Ihe Eighth and Sixteenth Representative Dis
■toicts cannot and will not endorse the wretched
■aisconduct of the men whom they have sent
40 Harrisburg, and they will be left at home,
whether they -contrive to secure re-nomiuations
■•r not. - And-the Senatorial Districts will take
the same high stand.
, The Chairman of the Finance Committee or
Councils, Mr. Bardsley, made a bold and
thorough exposition of this whole affair, yes
terday afternoon, and he deserves the thanks of
Aie community for doing so.
Although this monstrous fraud has now
been notorious for nearly a week, has been
tliiesubject of legislative discussion, of a mes
sage from the Governor, and tbe unanimous
action of both branches of Councils, the
Evening Bulletin and the Post are the only
Bepublican papers that have had the independ
ence to expose and denounce the wrong and
to demand its redress. Newspapers making
greatpretensions to independence,like the Presx
and others that are begging from door to door, ;
eommon mendicants for public patronage, like
the Inquirer aud Evening Telegraph, are as
dnmb as oysters, in the presence of one of the
. glaring frauds ever perpetrated upon this
,community. Such subservience is as sure, to
be understood and despised by those whose
immediate favor this silence is intended to
buy,TM it is to be appreciated by the public
generally, whoso vast majority desires to sus
tain every honest and fearless effort to expose
And collect the corrupt practices that are work
ing such mischief to Philadelphia and to the
fitaie at large.
A BONE OF CONTENTION. f
W 1 !?® ftb wfSutojtipii; of; San Doßqlngo, the
readjustment of the tariff, the reghkdioh of
Moiimonism, the recognition of Cuba, the dub-,
lie buildings of Philadelphia, and Methojdist
lay representation, together with other sub
jects, “ too numerohs to mention,” constitute
favorite,"hopes of contention, there,is • onb of
, these osteological. battle-fields to which iwe
youldinvite the attention of the antiquarian,
the historian, the scientist, the poet and the
scholar. These classes get little, pabulum‘out
of those, —to them,—stupidly dry hones which
absorb the attention of the forum , and the
church. Their favorite hunting-grounds Are
the dusty- Past. Their bones must be gatney
with age, and crisp with ancient dust, before
they are lit to be broiled on the gridiron of
their scholastic feasts. With our best coniplr
inents to the savants, we tender them a bone,
after their dear old old hearts. !
There is a well-known game, called “Twenty
Questions.” Everybody knows it, and it
Iherefore needs no lengthy explanation. The
point is for one party to ascertain, by a scien
tific process of exhaustive questions, what the
thing is which has been agreed upon by the
opposite party. It is a game capable of high
scientific development, and, in the hands of
skilful artists, there is a probably no object in
Nature, Art, History or Romance that cannot
be elicited by twenty questions, fairly an
swered. Sometimes fierce battles grow out of
the game, for it is one of the ’ happy peculiari
ties of our human nature to extract the ele
ments of contention from all the
sweets of life. These battles usually arise
over the question of the legitimacy
of the selected object, or of the correctness of
some of the answers. Thus we knew of a
fashionable watering-place being convulsed, a
few years ago, over the question whether the
hole in the wall, throngh which Pyramns and
TliiBbe talked, belonged to the mineral king
dom or not. Parties were organized, and the
strife ran higher than the breakers on the
neighboring shore. The contending factions,
true to ,the universal order of things, alike re
fused to be convinced, and, when the season
broke up, the Twenty-questioners , scattered
through the country so many zealous mission
aries of their mineral and atmospheric doc
trines. We believe dispute has not been
settled to this day,
But we are only sharpening jthe appetites of
ohr savants by this delay. We are tantalizing
them by holding onr bonne bouche above their
heads, while we excite their hunger with our
revival of the memories of their ancient feasts.
Now here is our bone. It is the hone of Old
Motlier Hubbard. There; do not all snap at
It at once. It looks like a very simple bone,
at first sight. Bnt consider it a little. ; History
tells ns that
“ Old Mother Hubbard
Went to her cupboard,
To get her poor dog a bone ;
When she got there,
The.cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none.”
No one can deny that that bone has an im
portant place in historyr It has come down,
from age to age, an unimpaired tradition, as
unchallenged as the pumpkin of Cinderella,
tlie roc’s egg of the Arabian Mghts, or the
Trojan horse. There is no element of irn-
probability about it. The visit of tbe venera
ble lady, prototype of the Women’s Branch of
the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, to her cupboard; nay, the very ex
istence of the cupboard itself, and the evident
surprise whieh fell upon the kind
hearted dame and her faithful
companion, upon discovering the barren
condition of the larder; all these go to prove
the existence of' our hone. Would Mother
Hubbard have wasted her precious time, or
wearied her ancient legs in going to her cup
board, had she not had good reason to believe
that the desired bone was there? Is it not
most probable that she was in the habit of
keeping bones in that cupboard, for the de
lectation of her dog? Can we not see, in our
mind’s eye, the confident wag of his expressive
tail, as she opens the familiar door, and the
desponding droop of that extremity as she an
nounces that “ the cupboard is bare?”
Ami yet, was there really ever such a thing
as this bone at all ? History speaks of it, but
only to record its non-existence. “ The cup
board was bare!” The smallest osteologic
fragment would have been detected, if not by
the parabolic glasses of Mistress Hubbard, cer
tainly by the keen scent of the hungry dog.
But no bone was there. A field of speculation.
as wide as space itself, opens before the arche-
ological and philosophic mind. There may
never have been any bone there. If there was,
what manner of bone was it? Who had
stepped in, between ' tbe . benevo
lent purpose of tlie venerable Hubbard
and tbe satisfying of the reasonable appetite
of her favorite pet? If there was no such
bone, what is the inference as to the charac-
ter of Mother Hubbard, as a provident aud
thrifty housekeeper? What becomes of the
cherished traditions of every civilized nursory?
If Jdother Hubbard’s bone has no existence,
it needs but another latal step of the skeptic
to sweep away the pie of Horner, the bowl of
the three Gothamites, or the errant flock of
Little 80-peep.
We merely indicate some of the salient
points of this most admirable bone of contep-
tion. Our only object is to invite the attention
of the learned to a theme which must interest
all who have a reasonable , love for, abstract
disputation. We do not mean to forestal
public opinion by giving our own views upon
the mooted question, but we solicit from the
Historical, tbe American Philosophical, the
Numismatic and Antiquarian Societies, the
Academy of Natural Sciences and the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
iogether with the large circle of citizens and
citizenesses who are interested in the game of
“Twenty Questions,” a full expression of
their views upon this important,topic.
Along with the cry of “Down with the
Taxes,” people should raise that of “Dewn ;
with Hotel Fares.” There are few if any
hotels that have lowered their prices since the
war times, when gold was at its highest and atl
expenses were enormous. The watering
places that announce a reduction during the
coming summer will ho sure to have the fullest
and heaviest run of visitors. One watering
piace hotel, that used to charge $4 or $4 50
per day, is said to he going to charge only
s!i 50 next season; hut until this is formally
advertised it cannot be relied on. When will
THE DAILY EtfeNING BULCE'tTO—PHILAPIIfiIPHiA, FltTfiA if T APttft.' ylftk
Loans and Discounts ,
Overdrafts
U. B. Bonds tosocurt* Circulation
Other 6tocks, Bonds and Mortgages
Due from Redeeming and Reserve Agents.
l>ue from-otber National Ranke
Due from other Banks and Bankers
Banking-house
Other Real Estate
Current Expenses
Taxes paid
Cash Items, including stamps
. Excbangea-fer-Clearlng House
Bills of other National Banks
Fractional Currency. including Nickels....
Specie, via.: Coin..
Legal Tender Notes
Three Per Cent. Certificates.*.
Capital Stock paid in 41,500,000 00
Surplus Fundr. - 750.001) 00
Dinconnt 132,164 79
Interest 707 jq
Profit.and Logs— 27,31] gy
National Bank Circulation outstanding 1,000,000 00
Individual Deposits 3,401,895 82
Cashier’ll Checks outstanding. Toller's Duo
Bills
Dne to National Banks,..
Dus to other Banks and Bankers.
State of Pennsylvania,
. County of Philadelphia, ss:
1.8. B. COMKGYB, Cashier of the Philadelphia-Na
tional Bank, do solemnly swour that tlie above stiito.
ment is true te tho best of my knowledge and belief
B. B.COMEGYS, Cashier.
Rnbscrlbedand sworn to before me, the thirtieth day
of March, 1870. 1
Correct. Attest—
ffW HEKKNESS'S BAZAAR,
ZCA NINTH AND BANSOIH STREETS
EXECUTOR’S BALE OF AN EXTRAORDINARY
FAST TROTTING DOUBLE TEAM W 4
ON SATURDAY MORNING NEXT
at 10 o’clock, at the Bazaar, will bo Bold, without ro-
M*ve, belonging to the estatOof George Bockiu*, Em.,
decoasod. a pairof valuable Sorrel Horace (homo am?
mare).will be separated; about 15 hands high, lone tail*-
well known on tun road, and believed to Co omi «f Lh«
fastest double teams In the city. n 01 Mw
*: —ALSO,—
A Top Buggy Wagon i by Dunlap.
A «>t of Double Harness, by Phillipe.
One Sleigh, lot Horeo Covers and Blanket*.
be eeon at Hoiee’e Stables, Race street, below
Twelfth.
ALFRBD M.HERKNESH,
mh3o-3trp§ __ Auctioneer.
Flne fkenoh and English notes
and Envelopes.—New etylen; ntaniped with
or piaiu iiiitiald, without extra charge.
lfc W. G. BERRY,Stationer,
iph3t 3trp|J _ . 728 Arch Mtrcnt
flPifk ISAAC GRIFFITH,
DENTIST,
the- hotels, of Philadelphia ~ adapt them
selves to the new situation, and" redaee their
fares? - \"• -wV'‘ .M-. 1
Dbttbbs From the East,— it is known to
many of otfr readers that a party of clerioal
gentlemen from Philadelphia are now making
a tour to the Holy Land and other foreign
parts. The party comprises the Rev. Dr. New
ton, Rev. Dr. March, Bey, Charles D. Cooper,
and the Rev. J. W. Claxton. We shall com
mence., to-morrow, the publication of a series
of-familiar letters from one of the party,
which, though not intended for publication,
are so graphic and ihtercsting that they have
been placed at onr disposaUfor the benefit pf
the many friends of the several members of
this Oriental parly.
The firm of Clark & Biddle,llM Chestnut
street, according to an announcement in
another column, is changed to “Robbins,
Clark & Biddle,” having been;re-inforced by
making a partnership with Mr. Jeremiah
Robbins, for many years a member of the
firm of Bailey & Co. Such an accession will
be a great advantage to one of the best and
most enterprising young houses in Philadel
phia.
For Soles of Beni Estate, StocbH. Eoan-s,
Furniture, Machinery, Books, Engravings, Ac,,
see Thomas A Sons’ advertisements and catalogues.
CLOTHING.
We are Ahead of all Competition
AHEAD OF ALL COMPETITION,
In Immenslty'of Spring: StocK,
In Excellence of Spring Material,
In Variety of Spring Patterns,
In Durability of Spring Fabrics,
In Elegance or Spring Suits
For Boys
For Hen
For Youths For the Street
For Lade
Fot Little Boys For Week Day.
For Large Boys Q For Every Day,
'For Stout Men g For Stormy Days.
For Healthy Men "JJ For Sunshiny Days
.For Business Men J For Rainy Days.
For Active Men rjl For Blustering Days
For aB Good Men g For Spring Days.
All our Goods are reduced
To meet the present GOLDEN VIEWS of the
public.
RATES DOWN as GOLD is DOWN.
Our vast stock of Ready-made Clothing is
ready for you.
Our incomparable variety of Foreign and
American Cassimeres in our Custom Depart
ment on the Second Floob, ready to be made
up to lit yon, at the shortest notice and the
Lowest Prices.
Come and see the Goods at our
NEW PUBLICATIONS
AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL.
A JV T cto Book, by the author of “ Little Women ”
NOW BEADY.
The Publishers announce with pleasure a new book,
by Miss Alcott, the popular authof of "Little
Women.” It is called
AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL,
ns in contrn-distinctlou to the fashionable city gill.
” Polly,” the old-fashioned girl, i» an embodiment of
what n young lady should -bo who is brought up under
the care of well-to-do parents in the country. “ Fanny”
ifift pictnreof a young lady, educated in a similar way
in the city ; and the moral of tho story lies in the differ
ence between the two lives. “ Tom,” the hero,—well, it
is enough to say of him that all the girts will be as des
perately fascinated with him as with tho “jolly ” Laurie
oi “ Little Women.”
” An Old-Fashioned Girl” is eomplete in ono volume,
with illustrations; and matches, in niifo and stvit*.
“ Little Women ” nnd “ Hospital Sketches.”
For sale at wholesale price by
PORTER & COATES.
822 CHESTNUT STREET
nih3o 3t| .
BANK STATEMENTS
Keportof the condition of the
PHILADELPHIA NATIONAL BANK at tbe
clone of busincsii, Murcli 24,1870 :
BEbOUnCEB,
LIABILITIES,
JOSEPH BIjtOBSTON, Jr.„’
Notary Public.
J. L. ERRINGKU,
GEORGE WHITNEY,
GEORGE W. HEARS,
; Di rectors.
g For the House.
jp For the Store.
J For Sunday.
*3,-*67,311 01
1,150,000 00
159,400 00
63,630 IS
112,671 li
28,327 49
160,000 00
100 00
31,908 70
12,922 10
6,660 89
492349 33
78,666 00
3,913 30
683,039 80
607,768 00
420,000 00
%7,468,252 7-1
75,994 60
438,840 71
77,73/ 84
$7,469,262 74
NOs 333 N, Tenth fltreet
SECOIVjD , SEjiITVG- BECEPTIOIV
<- --f i ' v Ur: -•
V; b>v,.
CLOTHING ESTABLISHMENT.
;On Tuesday, April Sth,
JOHN WANAMAKER
.Will receive his friends, customers, and the public, and afford them on opportunity
IMPORTATIONS AND MANUFACTURES
•18 and 820 Chestnut Street, J
Philadelphia. )
GRAND INAUGURATION
HOMER, COLLADAY & GO.
ABE NOW OFFERING
MAG NIFIC EN T STOCK
DRESS GOODS, SILKS, ETC.,
Replete with all the CHOICEST NOVELTIES oi
this season, together with liARO E INVOICES
of desirable goods purchased in this
market for Cash at
ASTONISHINGLY LOW RATES.
H., C. & CO. conclude that ft is only neoessary to quote a few of their
offerings as an index of the prices at which this BUPERB STOCK will be
disposed of, to insure an early call.
Handsome Doable Width Chene JIo.
bain*, 371-2 Cents.
Doable-fold Foulard Hohalrs, 45 Cents.
Double-fold Norwich Poplins, t in the
pew light shades, 06 Cents.
Hoyle’s Yard.wlde English Prints, 25
Cents.
Printed Satin Cloth, a new article for
the house or Walking Costume, 30
Cents. ,
One ease of the Finest Organdies im-
ported, 40 Cents,
Ileal Scotch Ginghams, In all colors, 20
Cents.
■A lot of, Thin Goods, of last, season’s
Importation . will be cleared oat at
mm 0 1-4 to lb 3-4 Cents.
a OFPERING :•
@ © J ' BWlr ’jONl?B L ii C oo ,^S Hllia ’*“ ’'* | For flue or coarw Fluting,
OLO-EBTART.IISHED loan office, 1 r.
Comer of Third end Hankie atroote, • I I mh3o
N. It. - DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY', '| DI.AIsK BOQKB OF MY OWN 51A
CUNB, &c., ___ ." i X)factuie,«ellingatredneed prices. ..
REMARKABLY LOW PRICES. ■ j\ mliSflSlrpn W. O. PERRY, B»at^ in
m — tfrps fiv-*, DETAILING' AT WHOLES ABE
.gKfck, price*—Saddlery, I?arao«. and, Horeo Gear of
arnaKda.dt KNEAKH’, R 6 .; ll«i Market etroet.i Big
noreo In the door.
MASKING ,WJXH, INDELIBLE INK 7
, Embroidering, Braiding, Stnmpinn,Ac,
' M. A. TOBItBY, 1800 Filbert sire '
RECEPTION.
!AT THE !
CHESTNUT STREET
(The Anniversary of Our Establishment,)
of inspecting bis new
SPBIN& CLOTHING.
LOW PRICES.
The whole of their
2 <■■(> of French Foulard Hohulni,
now b«lD( Mold by the piece for SS
Cent*, will be offered at 05 Cento.
Btacb Lyons tiros Grains and Drop de
Lyon, of the best makes, from 81 oo
to 98 50 per yard.
t’bene bilbo of the latest dailfni In
the Farts market,, and extra quality.
sold last Spring nt 83 20, 83 00.
Striped Silks from 81 00 to 92 00. '
Black Canvas Bareges, extra superb
quality, 62 1.2 Cents,
do. 70 Cents.
qualities,, np to 96,00.
Walking Salts, Face Shawls, Lace
Points, pte,, all at the SEW BATES.
At rery low price*.
, GRIFFITH * PAGE,
■ ; 1001 Arch afreet.
SELECT STYLES,
froa vhfch order* will be taken in aajr material da
aired. at moderate prieaa, with deapatrb.
CPRWEI BTODDART & BROTHER,
OLD ADD CHEAP LOCATIOH,
450,452 and 454 North Second Btreet.
at
>1 J* A< SHAWL ANI) PAKAhOL COVEKO. Price*
heiow anything known in this market -into Wl. Aha,
«n<i eUrapctt (lock of Lama Shawl,, a W
qualitifK, (n thf* market.
l*c« Ae.
Kki Glove*,sl iOapair.
george w. Vogel,
Importerof Lace Goode.
lfl)2CliC«u>ot<tre« t.
The Co-fnrln.rihip heretofore existing under the
firro of. CLARK A DIDDLE expiree tbh da j by
Aran. 1.W70.
The nndettlgned hare this day associated thera,eire»
under the name of UOIiBINS, CLARK A BIDDLE, and
will eontinne lho WatcJi and Jewelry business at the old
•und, 80. 1121 CHESTNUT Street.
The undersigned respectfully inform* hi, friend* that,
haring disrolred hi* connection with the firm of
Bailey A Co., he' ha« this day associated 'himself with
CLARK A- BIDDLE, Mo. 1121 CHESTNUT Street.
apt 3lrp
CO-PA KTH.EESH IP—THE UNDER
• lencrt. snore,sors of the old and well-known honeu
of MICHAEL WEAVER (established in 1817), hare
thta day associated theniselrea under the firm strlo of
■ WEAVER ACC., for the transaction of trado In Hemp,
Rope. Twine and Ship Chandlery, at No. 29 North
Water street, and No. 28 North Wharves.
MICHAEL WEAVER.
GEO. 11. S. UHLEB.
Pun-At xbrnu, April Ist, 1870. apictti
T' PEKCITWAffiTANb, ALEXANDER.
V . G. OATTELL, Jr., hav<‘been admitted to an inte
rest in oar firm from this date.
„ ALEXANDER G. CATTBLL A CO.
ArTtit. 1,1870. - atil'-Pt*
BUJST’S GARDEN MANUAL AND'
2SZ Almanac for 1870 contains I*o pages of useful in
formation to country residents. Distributed gratui
tously from BUIST’S SEED WAREHOUSE,
. 922 and 92f Market Btreet,' above Ninth.
BUIST’S WARRANTED GARDEN
'«£» Beedn.—Markat Gardeners or THvate Families
who.-deniro tho most improved seeds ; should purchase
ihpir supplies at
BUIST’H SEED WABEHODBB*
922 and Markot Htreot, above Ninth.
«£ AGRIOULTURAL IMPIjEMENTS
I£* ( AT)D GARDEN TOOLS, Ploughs* Harrows, Culti
vatora, SeedrSowers, Churns, Garden and Field Rollers*
I.nwill!owera; Railroad and Garden Whoolbarrowa,
Hay, Straw wild Fodder Cutters, all at reducod ’ prices.
Call aud examine our stock.
BOBKBT BUIST, JiU
Bofxl WareboußO, 922 and 924 Market street.
Bft THE PHILADELPHIA LAWN
db MOWFB.—This is tbo most improved imnd-mu
chino njttdo.nnd fs just tho article needed by- all who
have grass to cut, It can bo operated by a,lady without
fatigue. Price. 828, and ijuisrp,^n( bola
ml7;ini rp§ Seed Warehouse, 922 and 924 Marmot at.
«l SURPRISE OATS, OONOYER’B
JSIC Colossal Asparagna Roots, Large Fnrple Tup As
'paragus Roots, .' , ,
i Rhubarb Boots, Onion BeU, Ac.
■ . For ettltriiy. .
DAVID LANDBETn A SON, 1
'Nos.*l'«nd 23 South Sixth stroot.
It" ) iittwoeu Murket arid O'heatuut streets.
all widths ‘and
EARLY BOSE POTATOES. PURE
aSouality, - EARLY. GDOJDRICH POTATOES,
peach Blew Potatoes, to.
'■ BAVID i-A°Nll«fel A 80N,
It* " k Noh, 21 and 23 Smith Sixth street.
MtCUAEI, WHAVKB
WEAVER & OOv,
Hope and • Twine JlnnufiicturerN nncl-
Ikealers In Hemp aud Blup Chandlery,
29North WATER. as North WHARVES.
. . rUHADIiLPHU.
apl tfS . ' 1 ■
fIKOCBRIBB. LI«|PORB.Ae.
LOWER 3PLMOES.
EXTBA CHOICE
PITTED CHERRIES,
At 25 cents pet pound*
TOR SALE BY
MITCHELL & FLETOHEB,
CHESTNUT STREET.
"Silver Flint”
BUCKWHEAT,
THE FINEST ll* THE WORLD.
DAVIS & RICHARDS,
ARCD AND TENTH STREETS.
MP rptf .
DRV GOODS.
NOTICE.
PIM BROTHERS & CO.
FIRST QUALITY IRISH POPLINS,
In .II tolori. import woodally f„ T THIS BBAAON'S
iTOCK*of ?tlier * Ol ° Br LAUOB *“ d BLKOANT
SPRING SILKS AND DRESS GOODS.
nAILT.Md FRIC*B eiuraif
*#6d xo bo so LOW u they can be sold,
JOHN W. THOMAS,
an ® North Second Street*
, mo3o3mrp .
LADIES’
CLOAK AND BUIT DEPARTMENT.
How on oiblbltlon • .took of
copartnership.
NOTICE.
imitation
March 11, isro,
JEREMIAH bobbins,
JEDEDIAIIP. CLARK,
SAMUEL BIDDLE.
JFREMIAH BOBBINS.
AGRICULTURAL.
W. P. * c. B. TAYLOR,
Pei-fUmery and Toilet Sottps,
. , Ml and 613 North Ninth etreet/
J. P. CLARK,
S. BIDDLE.
OHO. B. S. UHLKK
tECON D EDITION
BY TELiEGfcRAVII.
WASHINGTON.
THE CASE OF GENERAL AMES
A VOTE EXPECTED TO-DAY
ANOTHER NEW STATE
Prospect of the Admission ofNew Mexico
THE ARMY BI L R
HARRISBURG.
The Governor Vetoeß the Indepen
dence Square Bill.
He Denies the Power to Prohibit
FROM WASHINGTON.
|Bp«ei*l Duvatfb to the Phlla. Krenliur Batlttio.J
Tbe Case of General Ames.
Washihotoh, April I. —lt is the general im
pression, this morning, that the Senate, before
adjourning to-day, trill dispose of Gen. Ames’s
case by voting down the report of the Judi
ciary Committee and allowing Gen. Ames to
take bis seat. Senator Wilson, who has mode
a canvass' of tbe Senate, says that the rote in
favor of Ames’s admission will be more than
two to one.
Umlmioß ors«w Bulet.
There is a prospect that tbe necessary ena
bling act for the admission of New Mexico as
a State in the Union will soon be reported to
tbe House. The House Committee on Terri
tories yesterday reconsidered their former ac
tion, whereby tbe bill having for its object
the admission of New Mexico as a
State was indefinitely postponed,
and agreed to consider', the same at
an early day. Evidence tuts been laid
before tbe Committee showing that thatTer
vitory has at the present time a population of
about one hundred and,twenty-five thousand,
twenty-five thousand of the same being voters,
and that there is no good reason why the Ter
ritory should not be admitted as a State.
A majority of the members of the Commit,
tee on Teiritorios seem to favor the passage of
an enabling act, so that the Constitution
already framed by the Territorial Legislature
may be submitted to tbe people for ratifica
tion. Hr. Cullom, Chairman of the Commit
tee, favors this plan.
The Army Bills.
The Senate Committee on Military Affairs
will have up. next Monday, General Logan’s
Army bill, as passed by tbe House; also, the"
one introduced in the Senate by Senator Wil
son. There is a disposition on the part of the
Committee to take the best portions of both
bills and make a new one, There is unanimity
betwesn the members of tbe committee on the
subject of reducing tbe aggregate expenses of
tbe army, and it is probable that tlio pay-table
in the House bill will be Incorporated in the
new bill, although Senator Wilson, who has
made a careful calculation,.wiys this, instead
of reducing the pay of officers, increases it in
tbe aggregate over six hundred thousand dol
dollars, the only reduction being in the pay of
twenty-four generals and chaplains.
Benator Wilson’s propositipn.is_.tp reduce the
rank and file of the army about eight thou
sand men, and to provide for mustering out
those officers wliosg services, in the opinion of
the commanders of tbe different departments,
can best bo'dispensed with.
WbUtemore’s Ite-Election Doubtful.
Advices front the First South Carolina Dis
trict represent that Whittemorc’s re-election
is by no means certain, be having a strong op
ponent in Mr. T. C. Dunn, who is said to be a
conservative, a man of fine ability, and until
tbe close of tho war a citizen of. Massachu
setts.
The lone Election.
Several of the leaders of the Conservative
and Democratic party of this .District have
been in consultation,and decided to recommend
their followers not to place any local ticket in
nomination for the coming election inJnne.
The opposition to Mayor Bowen on the part
«f nearly all the .Republicans of the District,
will undoubtedly end in two Republican
rickets being nominated, and the Demo
cratic leaders propose to give their
support to the nominees whom they think will
administer in the best manner for tho welfare
of the people, and not nse their positions for
oorrupt purposes.
The Fifteenth Amendment.
The negroes here propose to hare a grand
demonstration in a few days, in honor of the
adoption of tbe Fifteenth Amendment.
FROM HARRISBURG.
Independence Square Veto.
(Special Despatch to tbe Phils. Ersnlne Bulletin.)
Harrisburg, April I.—The Governor has
vetoed the hill prohibiting the erection of pub
lic buildings on Independence Square. The
following is the message:
To the Senate and House of Representatives:—
Herewith is returned without approval to the
House of Representatives, in which it origi
nated, the bill No. 483, entitled an act to pro
hibit the erection of Public Buildings upon In
dependence Square, in the city, or Philadel
phia. Qhe Btate has no power to: prohibit
such erections. Under the act of March 11,
1816, authorizing the sale of the Stato
House and Square, the title to the same was
vested in the city of Philadelphia in fee simple
for tbe consideration of s<o,ooo. It is true
that there was attached to this graut the pro
viso that no part of the grounds to the south
ward of tbe State House be made use of for
erecting any sortof buildings thereon, but that
tbe same shall be and remain: a: public
green forever. If this condition has,,
not been ailected by any subsequent
act, and is to- day in as full vigor as, when ori- 1
(finally established;' Then the bill herewith
returned is. wholly unnecessary, and is a mere
repetition of useless legislation. . It is evident
i therefore that the proviso of the act. of 1816
has been regarded as abrogated, and that it
has been supposed that >it was necessary to
re-enact it. That it has been destroyed by
the, Legislature is beyond all question. l That
:: i» ean be restored without,,and , against the
consent of thecity ,of PhihuJelphta mav well
he doubted;,-By, the act of March 16, 1847
<P. L. 471), the Commissioners of that county
were authorized, with the consents*the City
Councils, to erect , a now Court] House,
t J,i Accommodation of the i courto
SI™ 6 ** 5 ! °n part Of the State House
R . ail city; and tbs Counci lx. were
? er<) eta liew, CSttylH&l on
any other part of said square. That thTlo”a
tion and erection of tho buildinp ifero to jje
first approved by tho County Baaril is id.
' the pnrpos""‘p^-
¥£ lt J, n l n,r y- Tho Important fact established by
that statute is' 'that; the 'State.' dlsobarged
the proviso abqveqnotedas contained in the
• 'Jp of 1P16,, .The same result is dedticible from
the act of April 2,1860, thereby Commission
s’ 8 were appointed for the Erection of Public
Buildings on. any part of Independence
Bqare. The lull history of > the title to this
Square js given in the 'able letter
of Horace Binney and J. M.
. Petit, Xsqrs., to the Committee On City Pr
operty, December 26,1649, to he found In the
appendix to the journal of Connells for 1843-
1860, and in the learned lodgment of Mr. Jus
tice Bead in the City of Philadelphia vs, The
American Philosophical Society. 6 Wright,
12. It is unnecessary to encumber this commu
nication with extracts from the numerous
statutes and records cited in the letter and
opinion referred to. It is sufficient for our
present purposes to know: Ist, that the Com
monwealth, for value received, sold her title
in the State House and square to the city in
fee simple, subject only to the proviso above
quoted; 2d, that by two subsequent statutes
she has destroyed her right to insist upon
the conditions. Thus much is indeed admitted
by the attempted revival of the prohibition by
the bill herewith returned; ‘for, A as already
stated, it wonld be wholly unnecessary to re
cnact in 1870 a proviso which had been in full
life since 1810. The question presented for
consideration may, therefore, be thus stated:
,n the State restoro a condition
which she has by her own act extinguished ?
It might, perhaps, be supposed that as her re
lease was without consideration, she could re
sume her abandoned right. If this wereso in
any case, the principle would bardiy be sus
ceptible of application where one large build
ing baa already been erected, unless tne aban
donment of the proviso, and a board constituted,
plans invited, and a large expense incurred
preparatory to the erection of other buildings,
Byt without these elements to bar her claim,it
may be doubted whether the Btate could re
sume at her caprice a right of which she has
divested herself. Mr. Justice Story,Constitu
tional Law. vol. 3, p. 257,1385,5ay5: the Legis
lature may by a Jaw directly make a grant,and
such a grant when once made becomes irre
vocable and cannot be constitutionally im
impaired: and grants of land once
voluntarily made by a State, by
a special law or under general laws, when
once perfected,are equally as incapable of being
resumed by a subsequent law as those founded
on a valuable consideration. Thus if a State
grant State lands or other lands to parishes,
towns : .or private persons gratuit
ously, they constitute irrevocably
executed contracts. These doctrines have
not only, the sanction of the highest
legal authorities, but they are sustained by
every principle of right. It is especially neces
sary in the present times that all men should
be taught to esteem the sacred character of a
contract, and that above all others a sovereign
State should be the last to attempt to set an
example of repndlation
ISigncdJ
FROM THE EAST.
fßr tie American Press Amocietfoa.]
- SEW jrjEBNKY. ’
■cero Voter*.
.Newark, April!.—Two colored men voted
yesterday, in Perth Amboy, at a special elec
tion for the adoption of a new charter, which
was carried by a large majority. This is the
first instance of negro-voting in the history of
the State of New Jersey.
FROM THE 80UTH.
IBjr the American Preee Association.]
KENTUCKY.
Disgraceful Conduct.
Louisville, Ky., April I. —A few nights
ago, ionr young Germans, on a frolic, entered
the house of Dr. Huntley, mistaking it for a
house of ill-fame. The Doctor was absent at
_ the time, and the ladies had great difficulty in
-persuading them of their mistake. The Doctor
yesterday succeeded in finding out the name
of one of the party, and going to him, held a
pistol to his head, and made him disclose the
napies of the others; then gave him a severe
whipping. Ho then hunted up two of the
otlfers and served them in the same manner.
The fourth one, however, hearing of the raid,
left town. The affair creates great interest, as
all the parties move in respectable circles. A
warrant has been issued for tbe Doctor’s arrest.
Another Elopement Cose.
Mavsville, April I. Great excitement
exists in this city and in Mason and the ad
joining counties oror the elopement of John
Higgs, a wealthy citizen of Mount Olivet,
Itohertson county, with a grass-widow in that
vicinity. Higgs leaves a wife and three
children and a host of creditors in the lurch.
Among his numerous victims are Power &
Prague, ot the Kenton tobacco warehouse,
Covington, Ky , who suffer to the amount of
53,C00, and Casey & Wayne, $1,500. Power
& Prague gave Higgs the money to pay to
parties in Mason county. His swindling
operations will amount to 550,000.
FROM THE WEST.
I By the American Press Association.)
ILLINOIS.
Celebration of tbe Ka till I ration of tbe
Fifteenth Amendment*
Springfield. April I.—The colored people
in this city began celebrating their advent as
voters at one o’clock, yesterday morning, by
the tiring of thirteen guns. And notwith
standing the rain poured down in torrents, a
large procession, headed by a brass band,
promenaded through the streets.until morning.
OHIO.
inspected Poisoning Case.
Springfield, April I,— Mrs. Mary Hupp,
of Fremont, has been arrested on suspicion of
poisoning her husband, who died after a brief
illness on the 28th of September last. The
body was disinterred on the 17th ultimo, and
a chemical analysis revealed the presence of
arsenic. The examination of Mrs. Hupp will
take place on Monday.
New Karine code Adopted.
Cincinnati, April !;—Th'eßuckeye Racing
Club, at their meeting last night, adopted the
new racing code recently framed by the Na
tional Turf Congress at New York.
Hass Heeling.
A mass-meeting of the colored citizens, to
celebrate the ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment, will he held at Zion Church to
night.
Fall are.
The liabilities of Messrs. Dalton, Coleman
« Co., who failed recently, amount to $44,772.
Assets, $19,223.
River Overflowed.
Cincinnati, April I.— The river is uncom
fortably high. The occupants of the premises
on Front street; between .Ludlow and Broad
way and Main and Walnut streets, are
drowned out, and business men about Ludlow
and Lawrence streets are moving. Unless
the rain ceases, the flood will do considerable
damage. In the lower part of the city the
river men think the river has reached its full
height. But the rain ie everywhere prevalent,
and small streams are forming all over the
hanks.
Importation of Teas.
Merchants in this city have arranged for the
importation of teas direct from China by, wav
of San Francisco.
Railroad Enterprise.
At a meeting of the Marietta and Cincin
nati Railroad yesterday, it was decided to
issue three millions, in three mortgage bonds,
to apply to the improvem ent and equipment
of the road. 7 :
■ The terms of the lease of the Little Miami
and Columbus and Xenia roads to the Pitts
burgh, Cincinnati and St. Louis . Railroad
takes enect to-day."
' - ’lit* live Stock Harket.
. The receipts oflive stock in the different
J*™Itaw 1 taw city since Monday were: ■ Cattle,
826 ; sheep, 824; hogs, 1,900 ; mules; 42. Beeves
—A slight,supply aud prices • firm at 4a7i.
Sheep—insufficient, supply ; sales 4aGi, r Hogs
T-rarrlvals light. The marketis firin at.7ia9].,
PENNSYLVANIA. ,
tgsab**
. (Special Unpack to IlioPHilada; EyCriinsßulletin 1
Pottsvixxe, April L —lt is understood here
that all the coal' operators in' ’the Schuylkill
coal region will suspend work at twelve
- o'clock, noon, to-morrow, ns theinnn'ers re
fuse to accept tho new basis, ' ’
THE DAILY
Dubliw, April 1, 2. P. M.—Rumors of
Fenian raids, which hare attained wide
circulation, begin to attract the attention of
the Government officials, and they have been
directed to adopt a more aggressive, policy
with the Irish people.
The police of ibis city seized a large number
of revolvers and a quantity of ammunition on
board of a steamship which arrived hero from
Liverpool last evening. It is thought that
these arms were intended to be used in an
other genera] outbreak.
Johjt W. Ghart.
Charre fa the Provisional Cabinet—
■eslgnatlon of tenor Beearra.
fßr the American Press Association.]
Madrid, April 1,2 P. 11. —There has been
another change in the Provisional Cabinet.
Senor Beearra has resigned the office of
Spanish Colonial Minister. It is supposed
that the resignation arises out of dissatisfac
tion with the Cnban policy of General Prim’s
administration.
Senor Moret will probably be the successor
of Beearra. The change has created a great
deal of excitement in political circles in this
city, and may lead to still further and very
serious complications.
Financial and Commercial Quotations.
Liverpool, April 1, 2 P. M.—The cotton
market is firmer. Bales 14,000 bales. Yarns
and fabrics at Manchester are firmer at better
prices. The stock of cotton afloat is 348,000
bales, of which 227,000 are American. Mid
dling Uplands, 10|; Middling Orleans, 11 Jail j.
London, April 1, 1-30 P. M.—United
States Five-twenty bonds of the issue of 1802,
Oil; 1805, 901; JBG7, 89J; Ten-forties, 87L
Erie Hallway, 21#; Illinois Central, 115;
Atlantic and Great Western, 28]; American
securities are weak and dull. Consols for
money,93| ; do. for account, 93 j.
Liverpool, April 1, 2 P. M.—California
Wheat, 9s. 2d.a9s. 3d.; Spring do., ,7s. lld.afe.;
' Winter do., Bs. 9d-aBa. lOd. Flour 19s. 9d.
Corn, 28s.
Paris, April I.—-The Bourse is dull. Rentes,
73f. 95c. |
Liverpool, April I.—The steamship Cira- j
bria, from New York, arrived out to-day. i
Washington, April I.—An attempt is being
made by the ex-rebels in Georgia to return
Robert Toombs to Congress. The Savannah
Republican, one of the most influential rebel
papers in the Btate, is working energetically
in his behalf, and says in an editorial, in
yesterday’s gaper, speaking of Congress and
ToOmbs : 11 They (the Radical Congressmen)
have had everything their own way with none
to molest or make them afraid. The exalted
genius and worth of Davis and the almost
matchless purity and heroism of Lee
are befouled with their filth and slime,
with none to fling it back in the
faces of the traducers. Such have been the
character and aspect of Congress for years
past, and they want no man there to check
this flow of pollution and frown them into re
spect for true worth and common decency.
Mr. Toombs, perhaps, Of all other men in the
South, wonld best scotch this game of defama
tion, and bring the blackguards of Congress
to their senses. Hence they dread the idea of
his reappearance among them ns the advocate
of truth and right, and tbe vindicator of his
countrymen.”
Tbe Legal-Tender Decision.
The Supreme Court 10-day decided to re
consider their former decision on the legal
lenders, and to reopen the case. Four Justices
dissented, Chase, Nelson, Fields' and Clifford.
The Paciflc Mall Subsidy.
The Senate Poßtal Committee have agreed
to report the bill inereasingthe amount of the
subsidy to the Pacific Mail Steamship line be
tween San Francisco and China from five
hundred thousand dollars to one million dol
lars annually, with the understanding that
steamers will make two trips per month in
stead of one as heretofore.
[Jtf the American Proa Association..)
Naval Orde.N.
Washington, April I.—Paymaster W. AV.
Williams has been ordered to the receiving
ship Vandalia.
becond Assistant Engineer M 7 N. Hamilton
is ordered to the Terror,and the orders of Sec
ond Assistant Engineer Charles W. Rae to
that vessel have been revoked.
Paymaster C. P. Wallacb is detached from
tbe Vandalia, aud ordered to settle hie ac
counts. : . i
Conscience Honey Received. '
Secretary Boutwell this morning received a
letter from New York, signed “8.0. W., ’’ in
closing $36 57 conscience momey.
Internal. Revenue Receipts.
Total receipts of internal revenue for the
month of March, $12,775,281. Total receipts
lor the current fiscal year, $123,890,211.
[By the American Pres! Association.! ;
Marine lutrlllgeuce.
_ New York, April I.— Arrived, steamship
Bremen, from Bremen. :
EVENING IiIJLLETIH—PHILADELPHIA: FRIDA Y. A PHI I. ■ i S7O
THIRD EDITION.
BY TIfIIiKGRAPH.
LATER B 7 GABLE.
Proposed Conference of the English
Clergy.
The Fenian Excitement en the In*
crease#
MINISTERIAL CHANGES IN BPAIN
LATEB FROM WASHINGTON
BEBELBENTIMENTS IN GEORGIA
The Supreme Coart Decides to Re-
Open the Legal-Tender Case.
FROM EUROPE.
fßr tb. American Pren Association.]
ENGLAND.
The Proposed Conference of tbe Enteltsh
Clergy.
Londox, April 1,2 P. M,—There Is a great
deal of interest manifested in church circles at
the proposed conference of the English clergy
in New York next autumn. A circle has
been formed, headed by Lord Alfred Church
hill, to organize a general deputation for
attendance. ' An effort will he made to bring
the interests of the Church in America and
England more closely together.
I BEL AND.
Fenian Haldn---Belzare of Arms.
SPAIN.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Choice Rebel Journalism.
I Bpecial Despatch to the Phils. Evening Bulletin. 1
FROM NEW YORK.
FOURTH EDITION
3:16 O’Oloojfa.
the funding bill
POSTPONEMENT of THE TARIFF BILE
ADDITIONAL QUOTATIONS
Washinoton, April I.—The Funding Bill
in the Committee on Ways and Means goes
over till next week, and cannot be acted upon
in the House for a month.
No new Tariff bill can well pass both
Houses before June or July. Eftortsare mak
ing to postpoue the duties on sugar till Jan
uary.
The Banking and Currency Committee bad
a meet ing this morning, hut adjourned without
doing anything.
The Ways and Means Committee had a
meeting, but did’not take up the Funding bill.
.There will be nothing done with it forsevehtl
days.
Auomejr.Cfeneral Hoar and tbe Legal
Tender Decision.
The Supreme Court have notified the At
torney-General that they will hear the argu
ment on the Legal Tender case on the 12th
instant. The vote this morning for re-opening
the case stood five in favor and four against.
Liverpool, April 1, Noon.—Cotton opened
firm; Middling Uplands, 10|; Middling Or
leans, 11 j. Sales for the week, 61,000 bales, of
which 7,000 weTe taken for exportation and
6,000 on speculation, The stock in port is es
timated at 452,000 bales, of which 250,000 is
American. The receipts were 136,000 bales,
of which 103,000 is American.
Breadstufis—Wheat, 95.3 d. lor California
White; Bs. for No. 2 Red Western; Bs. 9d.a
Bs. lOd. for Red Western. Flour, 20s. for
Western Canal. Corn, 28s. 3d. for European.
Oats, 25.5 d. Peas, 37». 6d. for Canadian. Bar
lay, ss.
Provisions—Pork, 925. 6d. per barrel for
Eastern prime. Beef, 104 a. 6d. for Extra
prime mess. Lard, OGs. Cheese, 70s. 6d. for
the best grades of American. Fine Bacon,
60s. per cwt. for Cumberland cut.
Produce—Common Rosin, ss. per cwt.; Pe
troleum, 13s. sd. per gallon for spirits, and Bid.
for refined; Tallow, 435. 9d.; Turpentine, 295.
London, April 1, Noon.—Linseed cakes, £9
Be.a£'J 10s. per ton for thin oblong, for feeding.
Tallow quiet at 455. Sperm oil, .£!)0a.'ll per
ton. Whale oil, X3B per ton. Calcutta Lin
seed dull at 595. Sugar dull, both spot and
afloat; No. 12 Dutch standard, spot, 395. 3d.
LmsOed oil, £32a32 ss. per ton. I
London, April I.—Refined Petroleum I
heavy at Is. Sjd.als. Bjd. per gallon. . Linseed
Oil, i02a3255. per ton. I
Antwerp, April I.—Petroleum opened I
quiet and unchanged. I
Brewer, March 31, Evening.—Petroleum I
closed flat at 0 thalers 57 groats. I
HAwnrno, March 31, Evening.—Petroleum |
closed quiet and unchanged. I
Frankfort, April I.—{J. S. Five-twenty I
bonds opened active at 95ia95| for the issue I
of 1802.
Havre, April I.—Cotton opened Hat and
quiet, both for on. the spot and afloat; tres
ordinaire, on the spot, I3Gf.; low middlings,
afloat, 12f)f. 6 ’
VIRGINIA.
Marine Intelligence.
I Special Despatch to the Phila. Erenina Bollpttn.
Horfoi.k, April I.—The Danish corvette
Thor arrived to-day, from St. Thomas Feb. IS.
She experienced very rough 'weather.
FROM NEW ENGLAND.
ißy tho American Press Association. J
CONNECITCET.
Death of a Politician.
Danbury, April I.—Daniel E. Delavan,
lorinerly of NewjYork, and well-known as a
oeal politician there, died here last night.
Washington, April 1.
I senate—Mr. Osborne presented the papers
; of O. B. Hart for a seat in the United States
Senate, in place of Hon. Abijah Gilbert,
on the ground that the latter was elected on
the 41b oi January last by the Legislature of
Florida, when no quorum in either branch of
that Legislature was present.
Mr. Sherman presented a memorial from
the shipbuilders of the interior, asking for
relief.
Mr. Casserly presented the resolutions of
the California Legislature, asking for the
abolition of tbe income tax.
Also, a petition asking that the internal
revenue Jaw be modified.
Stvei a) bills of local interest to the city of
Washington were considered and passed.
Mr. Patterson reported a bill to amend the
act to Incorporate the Fre.edmen’s Trust ami
having Company, approved in March, 1865, to
allow the said corporation to loan money on
Sthteor City stocks, and on real-estate of
double the value of the Joan.
Pending the final action on the hill, the
morning hour expired. ■
On motion, it was ordered that when 1 the
Senate adjourn to-day, it adjourn tiff Monday
next. J
Mr. Morton gave notice of his intention, on
Monday nexf,lo move to take from the table
tbe Senate resolution in relation to the Oneida
disaster.
Mr. Bayard addressed the Senate in opposi
tion to the claim of Adelbert Ames to a seat
from Mississippi.
liorsK.—The resolution directing the Secre
tary of the Treashry to inquire into the stato
of trade between the United States and tbe
British dependencies was referred to the Com
mittee on Commerce.
Mr. btiles, from the Committee on Claims,
reported tbe resolution directing tho Secretary
of the Treasury to issue to Daniel K. Won
derly, of Chambershurg, Pa., three five hun
dred-dollar United States bonds, stolen aud de
stroyed by the raid on that place. Adopted.
Mr. Washburnc, from the'same Committee,
reported the resolution appropriating five
thousand s.x hundred dollars to Margaret P.
, Robinson, qf Kentucky, for the military oc
cupation ot the premises known during the
war as Camp Dick Robinson. Adopted.
«#< 4i jetties reported the bill appropriating
filly thousand dollars to Otis N;-Cutler for two
hundred and sixty-eight hales of cotton,
seized, while in. transit North, on suspicion by
Genera)l Grant ill J 863, and used by him to
oarricade the steamer Tigress, whioh sank
Adopted* 10111 ®' blockade at Vicksburg.
M r. bchenek said he understood that several
gentlemen-were charged with .speeches on
j therefore moved;that
at 4... U the House take a recess aud meet at 7.30
for general debate. Agreed to. -
Several other bills ora private nature were
reported pnfl.acted upon.
" ''tlHouse then went into Committee of
tbe Whole on the Tariff bill, and Mr. Garfield
took the floor.
-Pw'kought any man deserved tbe sympathy
J-* . ’6 Dense who rose as he did to make his
£li on the same subject, and t 6
fill the tfro hundred and forty-fifth column on
t subject in the Cohf/reisidtidl Globe. -
.The tendency of modern thought aiid legisla
tion was toward free trade. History showed it
BY TELLKGBA^H.
' 1
FROM WASHINGTON.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Funding Bill.
The Tariff Rill.
[By the American Press Association.]
Dolngft of the Committees.
FROM EUROPE.
I By the American Frees Association.]
Latest Cable Quotation*.
FROM THE SOUTH.
(By the American Drees Association.]
I'OBIY-I’IKSr CONGRESS.
Second Herndon.
so> Enßland’B historical
VL Uft Protective legislation.
He thought the wisest thing the friends of
protection conld do would iwto consent to a
reasonable reduction on imported articles.
if wo do not we will be compelled to submit
soonor pr laterto a violent andtaore sweeping
redurfion on tho whole list. In that event we
wotild have 1830 Over again.
On this floor there are some seventy
Democrats, nearly all of whom were declared
freetraders.
3:00 O’Oloote.
, Mr. Wood, interrupting, said he did not
know a single free trader as such on the
Democratic side. °
1 Mr. Cox—Here’s one. ;
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS IN NEW YORK
Gold Advanced—Governments Heavy and
Lower—Stocks Fluctuating.
fßy the American Press Association.l
New Vo mi, April I.—Money is in good de
mand at Cati per cent, on call.
Foreign exchange is dull and unsettled.
Prime bankers’ (iO-day sterling at 108{aI08j.
I lie gold market opened heavy at 1111, and
afterwards advanced to llljalllj. The rates
paid for carrying were 4ia(l per cent.
Government bonds arc heavy and lower.
Kouthcrn State securities are quiet and firm.
I acinc Railway mortgages at 911 to 92 for
Centra), and 84 Jto 85? For Unions. Union
Pacific stock at 41 to 411.
The Stock market is generally steady, thus
far in the day, with only slight fluctuations in
most oi the shares. Pacific Mail was the
leading stock, and was active, and ranged
from .i()i to 38. Boston, Hartford and Brie
shares at 3 to 31.
I Special Despatch to the Phila. Evening Bnltetin.)
HAnBPSBUKO, April 1.
oeitate.— Among the bills favorably re
ported was one urging Congress to abolish
west Point.
The House hill incorporating the Frank
ford and Holmesburg Railway was advocated
by Mr. Connell, who said it was demanded by
the people of the locality through which the
road would run, one of the finest rural dis
tricts in the city of Philadelphia. It was ne
cessary for the accommodation of the public.
The road would not, as had been represented,
interfere with the rights of any other com
pany, and there could be no valid objection
urged by any one to its construction. He in
sisted upon the passage of the bill as a measure
of Justice to his constituents.
Mr. Beck spoke against the bill, which was
defeated.
The following House hills were considered :
One incorporating the Orion Club.
, One authorizing the Union Passenger Rail
way Company to extend its tracks on Seventh
and Ninth streets.
One creating two additional assessors In the
Twentieth Ward.#
of Day at Uir
BnltetlnOfflce.
«>*• *J.—...43de«. 18M 13 dee. 2P. M IS dec.
Woatbe cloudy. Wind Northeast.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Philadelphia stock Exchange Sales.
#,22 Pcl i n&Warln C D 102 7 shC&AmB lie 117
k*® d,° cpin Jooa]o2 3eh do 117
aco Phila cp 6e 99 12 *l, Ilitlue ave B 12
Jo JaniJy MR 2UO oh Baodinp K b3O 4S’<
m Cit> Cb new 102 R 200 ah do a3own Its 43*4
kW W Jeraer KB‘ 91 100 ah do e3O
9ah Mech Bk 32 100 ah do I>6o 4S 81
, bxtwvbn soaaito.
2MO City to Old JOOR 24 ah Penn E 37
KMOPennKlnitceOa 9SR 2ah do c 37
J’ , 1 Bt . Plllla K C*P 04 200 ah Beading It sIO 48.69
47 «b Wilmineton It Mn 52 400 ah do bSO 48 81
Klnura.a 93R 100 ah : do effll 4-B'.'
lOshLeb Nav »tk b3wh42 1100 eh do 2dya 43R
r „ „ _ , SECOND BOARD.
"Ofq N P*nn» .fie 02‘A 1(10 bU Catawlssa prd L6O M
i e , b , ll . „ *>'*4 •’W eh Bead U lta IS’;
U.O ib Oil Creek A Alle . 200 sb do nd.)wnliß<i.6J
liner bCO 40%
A CLOSING
100 Bead B slO 48^i
J-riday, April 1, 1870.— Thero is a good deal of Impa
tience among the mercantile classes at tho tong-con
tinued prostration of every branch of buslnAs. Last
year there was a similar dullness, bnt not so marked as
at present, and due to entirely different causes. A par
tial failure of tho crops of jd<» and tho excitement insep
arable from tho Presidential campaign were the chief
cnu6ts accounting for the unsatisfactory condition of
atlairs, wliilst the abundant crops of 1869 and tho
aheeure of all political excitement have failed to bring
a . Bsf b»t. on the contrary, tho inertness of last
April has been intensified iu this,and disappointment at
tho prospect for the present season iR becoming univer
• Congress is entirely responsible for this unsatis
factory condition of affairs, aud it is to bn feared that
commercial disasters of a serious nature may follow if
ihe extreme and abnormal measures, suited only to a
.time of war should be much further perpetuated in a
time of peace.
The loan market exhibits no material change. Mjucv
is abundant and easy, and the mercantile demaod.
moderate.
Gold opened this morning at closed at noon
at 1)1*;—a decline of 3 „
Ppxeniment bonds were active bnt weak,in sympathy
with gold. y 3
Tho stock market was extremely dull, and prices were
weak.
Mobbi-b.D" UaYen & Brother,Ho.-toSouth Tbtrdatreet
otako the following quotation* of tb© raws© of exchange
to-day at noon : United States hues of 13a 1. 11.')},oils;
d .°-„ l ® a ’■ lWMallOfc; do. do. 1864. 109a1u%: do. do!
1860, lOSIiallWi; do. do. IMS. new, 107J4alu7'< : do. do
1*67, new. lOfc.’fnlOS?,': do. IMS do. 109 a ; do. do.
®s* 10‘tfjfl, 105,’aiiIU0}i: U. S.3oyear6 per cent, currency,
Illj4all2; Due Compound Interest Kotos, 1»- Uold,
llUtalllJi,-SHrer. 108all0; Union Pacific itailroad
Ist M. Miif, BlCaB.'o, Central Pacific Itailroad, JlijiMU ;
Union Pacific Land Grants. 730a740.
D. C. Vi harton Smith StCo., banlteni, 121 South Third
‘‘tree', Uhote at 11.30 o’clock a a foliown : Gold, UWi;
11 -P; Sixes. 1881, llvKallt: do. do. 5-20,1, 1862. 10%’
a 11074 ; do. do. 1864. IH9nIOS%: do. do. 1815. 109'iallO
d® dc. July, 1865, ; do. do. July, 1867. 108’.:a
l(>87i; do. do. July, 1868, 109al0%; 10-4tm, 105,Sal06>J :
fjnrienc* eixes, Ul’ialllJJ. 1
Jny Cooke & Lo u tune Government securltios &0.. to
day, as follows: United States 6*. 1881. 113>;all4: 6-20’s
of 1862, : do 1861. 1091110%; do. 1565, 10%a
JlSi In.-, s£}*< J 8 ® 5 } 107’4a108 ; do. 1867, 108’4al09; do.
ns/°r,i“’ilosH° r,i “’i 105H “ 106; ' 5: Cu,reßl ’>‘ «3>
•hc’impunt of coal transported oyer
Mar 3l"p!70- during the week ending Thursday,
From Port Carbon....: *OO
Total for the week.
Previously this year....
Total
To the same time last rear.
Friday, April I.—The upward tendency iti Oloverseed
n *Y™, l days still continues, and we notice sales
w bushols-j part at $8 2flaU and part on secret terms.
No change iu Timothy or Flaxseed.
Tbrro is no movement in Guercitron Burk, and wo
c W ln s? uuote No. 1 at ®27 par toil.
ihe Flour market continues extremely dull,the in*
<iutry iH'lugmostly confined to iho wants of tue local
n,H, J 80 if s of Bnporflno at £4.TOa4 60 : Extras,
at 94 Mjini 75 : Northwestern Extra Family at S6a6 76 :
I’rnsnylvonfa do. do. nt.f 6 Wi&6 60 ; Indiana and Ohio
do. do. at ®6 26atf 26,and fancy brands at 90 26a7 26. itye
Hour sells at ©4 £oa4 62H. Prices of Com Meal are
nominal,
There is but little demand for Whet, hut prioos arc
iincli.nßeii Small » ale » of Red «t 91 20al 23. uml
.V> ,p . * Kjolb strong at 90091 c. Corn in un
o! ~.' 1 l,ll,tlL ' r - Kttloe of 3,W0 bushels Yellow at
’ ( ? ll,s art'iimi, ami 2.IUW bushels i’enuHyivania
v«r Oun'' rI18l ’ d ttt BlirI “y anJ Barloj Mult wo
t■? *l 01 silos of wood noil iron-bound
UarkeM by Telcgrnpb.
f 8peol»l lloSDOtrh to tho Pbila. Evening Bulletin.l
f SKK.'Apnl 1. UH P. M,-—Cotton.—The market
Inis morning wits quiet but stoudy. Dalos of tt i, ont *UO
bolts. Wodaote us follows: Middling Uplands, 22V
ctnta. Middling Orleans, 23Vc. *
. The market for Western and State Klonr
rtnll bntflrni. The demand is conllued chiefly to borne
trade. Beceipts,b.ttfi barrele. Tliosaies an. 7,000-b.,r
relsat 84 38a4 IV for Superfine Slate; 84 ?OaS lUVfor
Ultra State; $6 Ioa6 45 for Kancr Statn•
for the low grade* of West”™ Kxuu':
Si 55m5 jA for guod to choice Soring Wheat
Extras: 84 BSatlfOfor Minnesota and lowu Extras: 84 73
as 25 lor Shipping Ohio, Bound Hoop; 85 2lhiß 6U for
Trade brands; SB Mad 40 for Family do.; 8S OOaS 30 tor
u'!‘h® r tv V . 1 ' ? r ., s fet*and Western ; SB 2Ua« 40 for
W bite \V heat do. do.; 80 30:i7 60 for Family do - as m
J 9 2S for St. I.ools Axtra Single. and Wn“
California and Oregon Flour 7 is devoid of life
Wp, animation. Bales of r aoo barrnin
Grain—Receipts, Wheat 77,*70 boahofl: The m
.Is weak j owing to tbs Bberftl receipt*. ThoaaUware
. "77 iv. Afilwatikeo at 81 07al 10, and
bi«&"iri* r Port,—llecolpts, 11)8,000
hnSfi , J'» T, ‘ tv ,l T k ®* lsduß'bdt fim,. Sales of 20(000
Ktiw Weßlern at «1 UJal Wi afloat. Old at BHISX
Vlf. J*«*P*»- Of :Pork are 1.2H7 barrels.
i,‘!d tt d"!***"* Arm at 820 7fi for new Western
Wets' Block on bund.'4o,9e2 barrels Lard.-Recolpls,-
CiO.packiigt'S. The market is duUanduucliaugoii. we
,n i&V5, p £ to, S. ,, ®* m ® ra i!^ a “«» ! ‘RB -
- 6)r>bnrrels. The market is doll.
W. ouote Western free at WaSISJi cents,
, ,Uo\(rsredflec at Malic.-
April’' dull. Wo quote
Vln’lSispi.r, ut iimlsll the year b. o. nt lialilfc. -
fltfWdjutl, : Salesuf too bbls.,*put, early in tho day,
al Receipts, 1 520 barrels. St.if pnl, 711 Isrr.l.fV
_ (By Ilie’Amnslcnii Pross Assocpatidn.l'
BaLTIMORg, April I.—Coffee is .ini. t mid iho market ,
Mr. Mnngen—Here’S another:
FROM HARRISBURG.
PKNNSYJLTAJIIA liEeisUTtlßE
SSLUS.
lOOsbFhilaAErie 23’
Pbllndelpbla Honey market.
Pottsviilo
Schuylkill Haven.
Port Clinton
Philadelphia Produce llarkeb
PrW Rio liW, (told, In bond. Th»
ifrck here is light, • , . > ,
but holders are firm. Middling tat 22-
L<m Middlings at 22Jfgood Ordlnarr at 20.
* n ® ■ t€a< *J r * Hales of 1400 barrels
Western Extra; for export, at $9 1236 «t»d Ml* *arr«lp
Xxtra at afi t 0 for Western and Howard'Btreet
•IS? V"d&fcTO2“ W ’ MW W?P •*“
•tfri?$ ed tZ:P ,<v ! e io iB « fir < ffi^ h an Tip ward tendencjr;Sal«r,
StObußHrlsat 98 tta9B 623,. f /'*■* :
at ®77 r,0,089 flTe dtlH * b,lt ' m * at Ko *****to Fork
Whisky lainll and nominal at 96c,
Tbe Hew TorK Money slarfe«t.
; f Froth tbf»Bfrir*ld of to-dav.J
TiitJBBDAT, Msrch 31.—The markets have been again
fleuva and excited, with the speculative Interest mure
closely concentrated on stocks
The gold market haa again teen a disappointment to
toe npecnlators fora rise, who ae<un at 112 to be repeat
ing tlie find experience which they acqofred at 120 and
»-again at 115* lint if the “bulla’ 7 do not makemouey the
ukftn ftre Dot large gainers: for, while the
* n v l “’°. Terae *it fer the past few weeks baaboeiriv con
stnnt shifting of tliw unimpressionable and onanscep
tiblo load from one “bull” to another, the “bears’ 1
have had little to solace thrmaelves with In so
stupid a market, Tha “bulls'’ have ch-er
fniiy paid two to fonr per cent, to hard their gold
corned ; but now, that therate has gone as high an 53a,
fjpil f b r e c ' E 8 1 °m o v ei i p parallel with money, they are
indisposed to hold ont for that long expected advance.
Tho chm-ces and the normal Influences favor a lower
range of tho premium, but themarket has been buoyed
~ |U Jl®>®tinns from Washington that tho
Jnmljugbjll Is certain to fall of patitage in tbo House.
The normal influences and the wenknens and decline In
exchange, the arrival oflmportcd specie, the adVnnoo of
nve- twenties in London, and the enhancement of .tbs
national credit, as 6howmn tho steady roductlon of tho
public debt, the amount for the month just closed being
estimatednt five millions. In connection with thereport
about the * unding Idll it was stated Jn tho Washington
telegrams to-day that In place of the free banking
clanso tho Banking and Currency Committee wonld offer
a bill a atborizing as increase of ono hundred millions in
National Bank currency . At tirat this was regarded on
inflation ; but,on second thought. the“bejlra” used it to
hammer gold , for the reason that it would really contract
tho greenbacks twenty-live millions. Under this com
bination «f conflicting influences to-day, gold yielded
slowly to 11J54,ns against 1123* at the - beginning of
business this forenoon. Tho market was otherwise com
paratively dull. Atfhoclose tho feeling was unsettled,
owing to the argument of Judgo Hoar before thftUnited
CJcmrt t° roopon the decision in tho case
oftbe Legal Tender net.
Holders °r gold paid 4,434,6 and 5)4 per cent, .'to have
their balances carried.
The operations of the Gold Exchango Bank wore as
follows:
Gold cleared . 934,965.060
Gold balances ...... 1,250,143
Currency 1,406,698
The market for foreign exchange was again inactive,
and rates declined an eighth per cent, for sterling. It
seems that tbo European demand for Aroetican securities,
inclusive of railway bonds.has supplied themarket with
an, ns yet. inexhaustible supply of bills, and
hence tbs bankers who Bought to make what
may be styled a “ corner" by buying nil the
surplus cotton bills, have boon unable to stop the
leak in another and unlooked-for quarter. Th© hun
dreds of new railway enterprises all over the country
are receiving generous assistance from the capitalists of
Europe, with whom Aral mortgage bonds on any sort of
a promising route teadily command investment favor.
Again, fivo twenties havs been unusually strong to-day.
and were quoted us high os 9134 in London this morning
—an advance of about one per cent, within the past
influences combine to depress ex
ca^l rftD « ed from f our to six per cent.,
with the former us the exceptional rate on Govern
ments, and tire to six per cent, os tho general rate
on stocks. Borrowers on mixed and interior collat
erals -puid dhe highcst rate mentioned. Tho supply of*'
funds in the street is ample, aud the increased de
mand was easily met at the figures above specified.
The failures Inst week have made buyers of com
mercial paper moro cautions, but strictly prime
names are readily negotiable at seven to eight por
cent. The Uilures of a petroleum house in this city,
a shipping bouse in Philadelphia and a petroleum
house in Pittsburgh were announced on tho street
to-dny. • "
The“bulls "followed nptliorfctory of yesterday by
another strong effort to-day, and though the contest
wovered danng the forenoon they had achieved another
signal triumph in the afternoon, about the time of the
sessioni of ihelast board, when Pacific Mall wav barriod
to.W4,l?erthwcat to 7334 and Ohio and Mississippi *o29*:.
Earlier in the day they bad put Lake Shore to 8834,
Now York Central t« 9254 and the script to 9034.
Here there was considerable realization, while
the “bears ’ were tempted to throw out a new
lino of “shorts.’’ The sales of the
afternoon were about evenly divided between these two
sources ;so that the market jeft off’* with the forma
tion ofanew“ short” interest fully onnal to that which
has been closed out by the advance of the past few days
The “bears’ sold upon the decline in gold to 11134, and
should the market go lower to-morrow it would en
courage them to follow up the partial victory which
they gaiued to-night in lowering prices a half to one and
a half per cent, from the highest made in the bnll”
movement to-day.
The lower Quotations for gold and sales to realise the
rerent sharp advance led to a decline of about three
quarters per cent. in the leading speculative issues of
government bonds. The lowest prises were inode at tho
close of business. ■
HariUme Kxhtblf lon In Ifaplea.
There will be held in Naples, Italy, an In
ternational Maritime Exhibition from the Ist
of September to the 30th of November, 1870,
in which all articles relating to maritime mat
ters from all nations will be on exhibition.
Gold, silver and copper medals will bo dis
tributed to exhibitors judged worthy thereof.
Tiie following objects will be admitted to
exhibition:
Ftnt Division —Naval Construction.
fiecondDivision— Steam Engines.
Third Division—Ports and Maritime Estab
lishments.
Fourth Division— Wood, Metals and Com
bustibles.
Fifth Division—Different articles and mi
terials necessary for riggiug and for the
arrangement of ships and navigation in gen
eral.
Sixth Division— Implements connected, with
navigation, preparations for salvage, and
arms for the commercial marine.
Seventh Division —Victualling of ships, and
sailors’ movables.
Eighth Division— Fishery.
Ninth Division —Scientific-Section.
Tenth Division —Principal merchandise and
articles for the exportation of Italy.
Any information relative to the above Mari-
time Exhibition will be cheerfully given by
Alonzo M. Viti, His Italian Majesty’s Vice
Consul at this port.
LATEST HABIHE BCMJtIIS.
ARRIVED THIS DAY. :
Schr Rsßlless, Baxter. 5 days from Boston, with hair
to Balder. Adamson & Co,
Schr Masnway* Hampton, 1 day from UlUvUIe, with
Iron pi to It I> Wood & Son.
Bchr Carollno, Ti«e, from Millvillo, with glass t«
Yt hitull. Tutuui A Co.
Bchr Four Bisters. Laws, 1 day from Milford, with
grain to Jos L Bewloy & Co.
Bcbr Julia K Trutt, Nickerson, 6 days from Boston,
with udse to enptain.
Bchr Barah Clark, Griffin, Boston.
. Bchr W II Tiers,Gifford, Boston.
Bchr Elvio Davis. Hunds Boston.
Bchr .Tub Allderdfce, Wostcott, Boston.
Bchr Hamburg, Willetts, Norfolk.
Bchr B II Wilson, Harris. Foil River.'
Schr Thus M Rodney,Still, Milford.
CURTAIN MATERIALS.
7,872 08
39,705’10
WINDOW DECORATIONS.
LACE CERTAINS,
HEAVY AND LACE DRAPERIES,
LAMBEEQUINSI
Satin Damask, Silk, and Silk and Woo
Fabrics, of all shades of colors,
the latest Imported.
WINDOW SHADES
In all the Newest Tints.
PLUSHES, HAIB, bo
ForJßailroadStipplies,
L E. W ALRAVEN.
ttMOnCHAU,
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No. 719 CHESTNUT STBEET.